TSCHILLER: OFF DUTY

Tough Hamburg cop Nick Tschiller lost his wife to the Turkish Mafia. When his teen daughter Lenny runs away to Istanbul to avenge her mother, Nick and his partner Yalcin go after her and wind up in a web of intrigue and espionage. Chased all over the roofs of Istanbul and ambushed in his hotel, Nick realizes the top Turkish spymaster Cheker is running his own game: Cheker has freed Nick’s archenemy, gangster Firat Astan, to use him to get in business with the Russian mob. Their gambit in the deal is a supply of young girls in a cargo container — including Lenny, who is shipped to Moscow and winds up in an organ harvesting clinic. Nick and Yalcin have to escape from Turkish prison and board a night train to save Lenny. After a hair-raising chase through the outskirts of Moscow and being arrested by the Russian FSB, Nick finds out it’s even worse: Lenny is not just having a kidney removed by the evil doctor they call The Sandman...

An action-packed blockbuster with German superstar Til Schweiger (INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS, THE GUARDIANS, KNOCKIN’ ON HEAVEN’S DOOR), a high speed, high-stakes chase from Hamburg to Istanbul and Moscow staged by genre expert Christian Alvart.

Director

CHRISTIAN ALVART began developing a fascination and love for cinema and television in his youth. In 1999 he wrote, produced and directed his debut film CURIOSITY & THE CAT. He subsequently developed screenplays for the TV series DER PUMA and WOLFF’S REVIER, and worked as director, author and co-producer of the multiple award-winning film ANTIBODIES. Alvart directed the Hollywood production CASE 39 with Renée Zellweger and PANDORUM with Dennis Quaid. His other films include: 8 UHR 28 (TV), numerous episodes of the series TATORT, and the feature BANKLADY. He is currently producing SUM1 with Iwan Rheon (GAME OF THRONES) in the lead role.

Christian Alvart (photo © Gordon Timpen) photos © Warner Bros./Syrreal Entertainment